Epstein Secrets

Lebanon, I remember wondering aloud to a few army friends, and to Nava as well, whether we would look back in a decade’s time and see the war as “our Vietnam’. In fact, Israeli troops would still be in south Lebanon nearly two decades later, when I had left the military and was about to become Israeli Prim

briefed me on the questions I could expect, not just about the Achille Lauro but the wider issue of Palestinian attacks, as well as Syrian President Hafez al- Assad’s efforts to re-equip his air force after his losses in Lebanon. So I came to the interview prepared. I brought audio tapes of the hijacker

r time, we might manage to extricate ourselves from the escalating violence with Hizbollah; reach a land- for-peace deal with the enigmatic President Hafez al-Assad in Syria; and find some form of coexistence with the Palestinians. He also spoke about international politics. I remember one afternoon in the summe

Lebanon, I remember wondering aloud to a few army friends, and to Nava as well, whether we would look back in a decade's time and see the war as "our Vietnam". In fact, Israeli troops would still be in south Lebanon nearly two decades later, when I had left the military and was about to become Israeli Prim

briefed me on the questions I could expect, not just about the Achille Lauro but the wider issue of Palestinian attacks, as well as Syrian President Hafez al- Assad's efforts to re-equip his air force after his losses in Lebanon. So I came to the interview prepared. I brought audio tapes of the hijacker

r time, we might manage to extricate ourselves from the escalating violence with Hizbollah; reach a land- for-peace deal with the enigmatic President Hafez al-Assad in Syria; and find some form of coexistence with the Palestinians. He also spoke about international politics. I remember one afternoon in the summer

exing its muscles, with increases in military spending and a harder-line in border disputes with a range of neighbors, including India, Japan, and Vietnam. As a result, the United States is seeking to make common cause with China's nervous neighbors -- bolstering alliances with its traditional Asian al

insula and before it slipped out of the hands of the Arabs into those of the Persians and the Turks. Yet decades earlier, Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez -- a man of supreme cunning and political skill -- had ridden the military and the Baath Party to absolute power, creating a regime in which power

y in Europe, the reopening of borders, bars and nightclubs is being blamed for a small but noticeable increase in cases." New Outbreak Spreading In Vietnam. The New York Times (7/29, Beech, Doan, 18.61M) reports, "After months without a single coronavirus death, or even a confirmed case of local transm

rian President Bashar al-Assad's government and warned that anyone doing business with Damascus was also at risk of being blacklisted." Assad's son, Hafez, was "among four people and 10 entities, including a Syrian army unit, targeted by Washington over accusations they either aided government funding

he Vietnam War, when the Pentagon tested unmanned aerial vehicles for what the military called ISR: intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. "Vietnam was decisive to the development of drones as the perfect tools to perform dangerous missions without the risk of losing a pilot," says aviation his

s Alawites and Sunnis under one banner. Although Sunnis initially tolerated the growing clout of the Alawite community, resentment resurfaced when Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite and the father of the current president, seized power in 1970. When he proposed a new constitution three years later that mandated a se

y in Europe, the reopening of borders, bars and nightclubs is being blamed for a small but noticeable increase in cases." New Outbreak Spreading In Vietnam. The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/world/asia/coronavirus-vietnam.html> (7/29, Beech, Doan, 18.61M) reports, "After months wit

rian President Bashar al-Assad's government and warned that anyone doing business with Damascus was also at risk of being blacklisted." Assad's son, Hafez, was "among four people and 10 entities, including a Syrian army unit, targeted by Washington over accusations they either aided government funding

y in Europe, the reopening of borders, bars and nightclubs is being blamed for a small but noticeable increase in cases." New Outbreak Spreading In Vietnam. The New York Times (7/29, Beech, Doan, 18.61M) reports, "After months without a single coronavirus death, or even a confirmed case of local transm

rian President Bashar al-Assad's government and warned that anyone doing business with Damascus was also at risk of being blacklisted." Assad's son, Hafez, was "among four people and 10 entities, including a Syrian army unit, targeted by Washington over accusations they either aided government funding

t. More recently, China sternly warned the overseas arm of India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. against prospecting for hydrocarbons off the coast of Vietnam. None of these tensions is likely to abate anytime soon, especially because India remains acutely dependent on external energy sources. Despite th

the new Syrian state held free and fair elections in 1947, 1949 and 1954 that all broke down according to tribal, regional and sectarian interests. Hafez finally ended the chaos by becoming the Leonid Brezhnev of the Arab world: He staved off the future by institutionalizing fear, even as he did noth

must guide all cases. But that is exactly the kind of thinking that has led —always—to tragedy. The Truman Doctrine was never meant to be applied to Vietnam. The Bush Doctrine was applied to Iraq based on a series of lies told to the American people. And so on. If the Obama Doctrine is nothing like those,

s mustard gas -- to advanced nerve agents such as sarin and possibly persistent nerve agents, such as VX gas. In the hands of Assad -- and his father Hafez before him -- these weapons have been an ace-in-the-hole deterrent against Israel's nuclear capability. The Assad regime, however, has never openly b

ast 34 soldiers killed. Yesterday, the FSA attacked the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence Agency at Harasta near the capital Damascus. Since Hafez al-Assad, an air-force officer and Bashar's father, seized power in a coup in 1970, the AIA has been the nerve center of the regime's security system. Also th

atigue has set in. Recent US history has been characterized by cycles of enthusiasm about foreign engagement. In the mid-1970's, following the war in Vietnam, America, guided by President Jimmy Carter's moralizing impulse, opted for "regionalization" of its engagements. But, given that the Soviet threat st